Browser Usage - What do you use on your devices?

Vivaldi on the Mac, Safari on iPhone and iPad. Might take another look at Orion since it came up here.

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Chrome is the new Internet Explorer 6.

Been going on for a long time. Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 - The Verge

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Yeah, letā€™s hope it doesnā€™t get as bad as the bad old days of IE.

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I remember setting up our webmaster with the current browsers available at the time so she could test our websites. There is no excuse for building site for just chromium browsers.

However the article is out of date. Iā€™ve not found any Google product that doesnā€™t work in Safari or Microsoft Edge. And the Interop Project seems to be working on the problem.

Safari almost entirely across my Apple devices, but I do use Brave from time to time. Iā€™ll throw in a plug for 1Blocker on Safari, because it makes it so much better.

But it happened a lot while I was still working in the corporate space.

Well, of course. It was published in 2018 when Google was throwing its weight around. Iā€™m glad to hear Google these days is at least trying to polish its public image. Hereā€™s a more recent take (2023) on their historical practices.

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over - The Verge

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